Hormizd IV

Hormizd IV (528-590) was Shahanshah of the Sassanid Empire from 579 to 590, succeeding Khosrau I and preceding Bahram VI.

Biography
Hormizd was born in 528, the son of Khosrau I. She showed himself as a qualified leader, so Khosrau made him his heir apparent; in 579, he succeeded his father on his death. Hormizd replaced the deceased Bacurius III of Iberia with a Sassanid governor in 580 and fought against Emperor Philippikos of Byzantium in a series of seesaw battles and sieges. In Balkh, he slew the khan of the Turks and his son in battle and fought against the Khazars and Romans in the following years. However, one of his generals rebelled and blinded and murdred Hormizd before rising to the throne as Bahram VI.